Academic Assessments - Health Occupations

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Medical Terminology Crossword Puzzle
This assessment aligns with the Illinois Workplace Skills D4 (Communicating on the Job/Prepare written communication) and D5 (Communicating on the Job/Follow written directions) and can be used as the basis of daily lesson planning.

Medical Terminology Building Cards
This assessment aligns with the Illinois Workplace Skills D1 (Communicating on the Job/Communicating orally with others), D4 (Communicating on the Job/Prepare written communication) and D5 (Communicating on the Job/Follow written directions) anc can be used as the basis of daily lesson planning.

Share a Medical Term
This assessment aligns with the Illinois Workplace Skills D4 (Communicating on the Job/Prepare written communication) and D5 (Communicating on the Job/Follow written directions) and can be used as the basis of daily lesson planning.

Improving Reading Comprehension in Health Occupations
This assessment aligns with the Illinois Workplace Skills D5 (Communicating on the Job/Follow written directions) and can be used as the basis of daily lesson planning.

Recommending Health Related Books
This assessment aligns with the National Health Care Skill Standards, which indicate that health care workers must be able to read and write, including charts, reports and manuals, and use health care terminology. It can also be used as the basis of daily lesson planning.

Recommending Health Occupations Curriculum Materials
In accordance with the National Health Care Skills Standards, health care workers will need to be able to read and write, including charts, reports and manuals, and use health care terminology. This assessment addresses these issues and can also be used as the basis of daily lesson planning.

Proofreading/The Health Research paper
Students working in health care occupations must communicate with other health care workers in order to provide optimum care for the client. . Students must learn to proofread and edit their reports in order for the content to be accurate and understood by those reading the document. These areas are addressed in this assessment. This assessment can also be used as the basis of daily lesson planning.

Letter of Request to Observe at a Health Care Facility
This assessment aligns with the Illinois Workplace Skills D 4, (Communicating on the Job/Prepare written communication), K1 (Demonstrating Technological Literacy/Demonstrate basic keyboarding skills) and K2 (Demonstrating Technological Literacy/Demonstrate basic knowledge of computing) and can be used as the basis of daily lesson planning.

Listening to a Health Careers Presentation
The health occupations student needs to understand various career options and the preparation required for them. Health care is team oriented; and practicing team membership skills such as cooperation, leadership and listening assure the client of quality care. A health care worker can utilize listening skills to measure and report indicators of a client???s health status. These areas are addressed in this assessment. This assessment can also be used as the basis of daily lesson planning.

Clues to the Diagnosis
This assessment aligns with the National Health Care Skill Standard Therapuetic/Diagnostic Care (Monitoring Client Status). It also meets the Illinois Workplace Skills D1 (Communicating on the Job/Communicate orally with others), D 3 (Communicating on the Job/Interpret the use of body language) and D5 (Communicating on the Job/Follow written directions). It can also be used as the basis of daily lesson planning.

The Health Research Paper
Health care literature is available to the public in many forms. Students must be aware of sources available and what the public is viewing. Being able to read and write reports, charts and manuals while understanding medical terminology is a health care skill. Collecting, analyzing for accuracy and organizing this information assists the student in understanding the need for life-long learning in health care. These skills are addressed in this assessment. This assessment can also be used as the basis of daily lesson planning.

The Health Research Paper
Research and modern technology create a constantly changing atmosphere in the health care field. All workers must be aware of these changes in order to provide quality care for their clients. Reading professional journals, popular magazines and searching the internet are some ways to obtain information on developments in health care. Selecting usable information for a particular career and being able to determine its accuracy are important before implementing change. These skills are addressed in this assessment. This assessment can also be used as the basis of daily lesson planning.

Teaching Health Safety
In compliance with the National Health Care Skill Standards, health care workers will be aware of existing and potential hazards to clients, coworkers and self. They will prevent injury or illness through safe work practices and follow health and safety policies and procedures. Health care workers must also be able to read and write reports, charts and manuals and know various communication methods to give and obtain information. These skills are addressed in this assessment. Tis assessment can also be used as the basis of daily lesson planning.

Multimedia and Health Occupations Presentation
In compliance with the National Health Care Skill Standards, health care workers must communicate effectively, both orally and in written form. They must be able to adapt to various audiences and situations and use medical terminology effectively. Use of electronic technology will enhance their presentation and assist in relaying the desired message. These skills are addressed in this assessment. This assessment can also be used as the basis of daily lesson planning.

Calculating Laboratory Dilutions
This assessment allows students to Develop, use, analyze and explain methods for solving number sentences or word problems involving proportions with rational numbers, Determine and describe the effects of arithmetic operations with decimals and integers, Determine derived measurements, Solve simple problems involving rates and other derived measurements. This assessment can also be used as the basis of daily lesson planning.

Working as a Pharmacy Technician
Accurately filling physician drug prescriptions for patients requires math skills that utilize the concepts of quantities, ratios, proportions and percents. These mathematics skills are key in the ???Academic Foundation??? specified in the National Health Care Standards. Theses sills are adrressed in this assessment. This assessment can also be used as the basis of daily lesson planning.

How Vital Are Your Signs?
Students employed in various health occupations are required to measure and report client vital signs or other indicators of health status, use appropriate evaluation tools and instruments, recognize abnormal results and take action consistent with level of training. Both mathematical and analytical skills are critical to accurately perform these job duties. These skills are addressed in this assessment. This assessment can also be used as the basis of daily lesson planning.

HIV/AIDS Survey
This standard aligns with the National Skills Standard Therapeutic/ Diagnostic Care (Health Maintenance Practices) and can be used as the basis of daily lesson planning.

Health Care Administratot Profit Leader
This assessment also aligns with National Skill Standard Information Service Cluster (System and Procedures) and Illinois Workplace Skills E1 (Interpreting the Economics of Work/Identify the role of business in the economic system), E4 (Interpreting the Economics of Work/Investigate opportunities and options for business ownership) and E 5 (Interpreting the Economics of Work/Assess entrepreneurship skills.) It can also be used as the basis of daily lesson planning.

Medical Supply Store Decision
This assessment aligns with the National Skills Standard Environmental Service Cluster, (Environmental operations) and Workplace Skill E1 (Interpreting the Economics of Work/Identify the role of business in the economic system). It can also be used as the basis of daily lesson planning.

What Are the Chances?
The ability to use analytical skills to solve problems in the health care setting as outlined by the National Health Care Standards is addressed in this assessment. This assessment can also be used as the basis of daily lesson planning.

What About Stem Cells?
This assessment allows students to know and apply concepts that explain how living things function, adapt and change (12A); the concepts, principles and processes of scientific inquiry (11A); the accepted practices of science (13A); and concepts that describe the interaction between science, technology and society (13B). This assessment can also be used as the basis of daily lesson planning.

Diffusion Through a Human Red Blood Cell
This assessment aligns with the Clinical Laboratory Science/Biotechnology Cluster occupational skill standards #3 (General Laboratory Skills/Demonstrate the use of a microscope) and #23 (General Laboratory Skills/Perform dilutions). It also aligns with the National Health Care Skill Standards in the area of Safety Practices, (Health care workers will understand the existing and potential hazard to clients, coworkers and self/Use Universal Precautions to control the spread of infection). This assessment can also be used as the basis of daily lesson planning.

Considering Imuno-Dificiencies
This activity relates to knowledge associated with Standard 12A, while addressing Performance Descriptors for Stage J within Standards 11A and 13B. According to the National Health Care Skills Standards, students need to be able to apply knowledge of life sciences, such as biology, chemistry, physics and human growth and development. Students must also be aware of the history of health care and use analytical shills to solve problems and make decisions. Many illnesses are a result of deficiencies in the body???s various immune systems. Therefore, understanding the immune systems is critical to Health Occupations students. These skills are addressed in this assessment. This assessment can also be used as the basis of daily lesson planning.

Athletic Traioning - How Much is Too Much?
This activity relates to knowledge associated with Standards 12D and 12A addressing Performance Descriptors for Stage I within Standard 11B. Applying scientific habits of mind in Standard 13A are foundational. This assessment can also be used as the basis of daily lesson planning.

Doppler Ultrasound in Healthcare
This activity relates to knowledge associated with Standards 12A and 12D, while addressing the Performance Descriptors for Stage I within Standard 11B. Additional connections to the scientific technologies advanced in the past century and career decisions are applicable from Standards 13A and 13B. This assessment can be used as the basis of daily lesson planning.

Impact of Radiation Research - Let It Glow!
This activity relates to knowledge associated with Standard 12C, while addressing Performance Descriptors for Stage J within Standard 11A as an issue investigation. Applying the accepted practices of science (including the principles of safety) in Standard 13A is foundational. Applying the societal implications of this scientific research addresses Performance Descriptors in 13B. This assessment can be used as the basis of daily lesson planning.

Making an Unoccupied Hospital Bed
This activity relates to knowledge associated with Standard 12C broadly, while addressing Performance Descriptors for Stage H within Standards 11B and 13A and can be used as the basis of daily lesson palnning.

Health According to the Earth Sciences
This activity relates to knowledge associated with Standard 12E, while addressing Performance Descriptors for Stage J within Standards 11A and 13B and can be used as the basis of daily lesson planning.

Science and Health Occupations Careers
This activity integrates information as suggested in Standard 13B at Stage J. It should incorporate information from the life, environmental, chemical, physical, earth and space concepts from Goal 12. The format for this activity could be incorporated into all Goal 12 units to assure the understanding of the applications of science in the real-world applications of health occupations. Additional applications into the accepted practices of science in Standard 13A may be integrated as well. This assessment can also be used as the basis of daily lesson planning.

Our Hospital Waste
: This activity integrates information as suggested in Standard 13B at Stage H. It incorporates information from Standard 12E, the processes of scientific inquiry for issue investigations from Standard 11A, as well as the understanding of the accepted safety practices of science described in Standard 13A. This assessment can also be used as the basis of daily lesson planning.

Public Policy Analysis in Health Care
This assessment aligns with the National Standard Skill Information Service Cluster (Systems procedures, documentation and operations) and can be used as the basis of daily lesson planning.

Chain of Events Related to 9/11: Threats of Bioterrorism
This assessment aligns with the National Health Care Skill Standards, Therapeutic/Diagnostic Care (Health Maintenance Practices, Client Interaction and Intrateam Communications). It also meets the Illinois Workplace Skills E1 (Interpreting the Economics of Work/Identify the role of business in the economic system), E4 (Interpreting the Economics of Work/Investigate opportunities and options for business ownership) and E5 (Interpreting the Economics of Work/Assess entrepreneurship skills). It can also be used as the basis of daily lesson planning.

HOSA Convention Fund Raising
The health occupations worker must be aware of the effect of supply and demand on health-care services. This is addressesd in this assessment and this assessment can be used as the basis of daily lesson planning.

Inefficiency in the Long-Term Care Facility
This assessment aligns with the Illinois Workplace Skills J2 (Demonstrating Work Ethics and Behavior/Practice cost effectiveness), J3 (Demonstrating Work Ethics and Behavior/Practice time management) and J9 (Demonstrating Work Ethics and Behavior/Identify the value of maintaining regular attendance). This assessment can also be used as the basis of daily lesson planning.

Impact of Technology on Wellness
A health care worker must be aware of technology and new treatments available for the client and the effect these have on health care. Knowledge of illness prevention and the range of services offered is essential. A health care worker must also be sensitive to multicultural needs and the acceptance of modern practices. These skills are addressed in this assessment. This assessment can also be used as the basis of daily lesson planning.

Social Institutions and Social Needs in Health Care
Students entering health occupations should have an understanding of the social institution used to address the health care needs of the elderly population. The student should be able to analyze and compare the effectiveness of different types of health-care institutions. These skills are addressed in this assessment. This assessment can also be used as the basis of daily lesson planning.

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